S6 Ep20: The Power of Writing It Down with Allison Fallon

Live Well Anyway

MacKenzie Koppa

Books, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Arts

4.6 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

On this week’s episode of Live Well Anyway the Podcast, your host MacKenzie Koppa chats with author, speaker and creative coach Allison Fallon. Ally’s new book, The Power of Writing It Down, is the main topic of their conversation today. They talk about how Allison recommends getting your words and your story on the page and getting past the things that block you from doing that. Allison shares why the practice of writing works to shift our perspective and change the way we think and act. They get pretty deep into what to do when you have experienced trauma and how journalling can help move the healing process along. There is so much practical goodness in this conversation, that we think you will want to listen to this episode more than once, and get your hands on Allison’s book!

LINKS MENTIONED

Find Allison at AllisonFallon.com

Follow Allison on Instagram @allyfallon

Follow MacKenzie on Instagram @mackenziekoppa

Check out MacKenzie’s YouTube channel

Live Well Anyway Facebook Group

WHERE TO FIND THE SHOW

JOIN US ON PATREON

Live Well Together! Patreon Community

VISIT OUR SPONSORS

Magic Spoon- MagicSpoon.com/livewell to order a variety pack, and use code LIVEWELL for $5 off your order

Acorn TV- try Acorn FREE for 30 days when you go to Acorn.tv and use promo code LIVEWELL

Simply Earth- Subscribe and get a FREE 80ml diffuser at simplyearth.com/livewell

SHOP WITH US THROUGH AMAZON

Thank you for using our Amazon affiliate links to support the show!

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to Live Well Anyway.
0:12.3	I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa, formerly of cultivating the lovely.
0:15.9	And on this podcast, we focus on wellness, beauty, style, planning, and life.
0:23.6	Basically, life is messy. And here we learn to live well anyway. So join me on this journey as we figure it out together. And just to get us
0:29.1	started, I'll go first. Okay, today's guest to help us live well anyway is Allison Fallon.
0:35.8	She recently came out with a brand new book called The Power of Writing
0:39.5	It Down. And I think this book is so interesting for a lot of reasons because I think a lot of us
0:45.5	want to be writing more. We want to be journaling or maybe pursuing bigger writing goals.
0:51.2	But it can be really hard to figure out how to get started on that path.
0:54.5	And she definitely addresses that in this book, as we will talk about in the episode.
0:58.8	But she also talks about all these really interesting things about what a writing practice
1:03.8	can do for your life.
1:05.3	It can help you overcome trauma.
1:06.9	It can even build your immune system, which I just think is crazy and was a really fun crossover to all of the wellness topics that we've been talking about.
1:15.4	But before we get started, I want to mention Patreon, as I always do, because even though I feel like I talk about it all the time,
1:23.4	I'm kind of realizing that maybe I'm not making things as clear as I thought I was across social
1:29.4	media. I've been having people reach out to me and be like, I didn't even know you had a podcast.
1:33.5	Well, that's a problem. And possibly something that I need to get past maybe, you know,
1:38.9	talking about what I'm actually doing a little bit more because apparently people have no idea.
1:43.4	If you're listening to this show, I assume you know that I'm on Instagram and I do stories
1:48.9	there all the time and that we've got Patreon going on.
1:52.2	But just in case, you don't know what Patreon is.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from MacKenzie Koppa, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of MacKenzie Koppa and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.